CHRISTOPHER WALTERS

Christopher Walters is a commercial photographer with origins in Fine Art Photo Media (BVA Sydney University). His love of Architecture and Fine Art Photography has led him to his professional career in Architectural representation and also as a film director.In the past decade, Christopher’s focus has been concentrated on his commercial work and developing his successful production company.Fine Art has always been at the core of Christopher’s practice and although the rigidity of Architecture has been a constant in his work, Landscape has an equal allure.​

CLOUR STUDIES. A SERIES FOR OPI - ORACloud Studies 2018 is a continuation of Christopher's first solo exhibition ‘Halcyon' in 2016 and a culmination of 7 years of research and work. Fascinated by the feeling of a place, Christopher's work dives into the minute detail.With a desire to embody feelings of place without depicting any particular space, Cloud studies focuses its attention on the spaces in-between.Interpolating the day and night, today and tomorrow, the sun and the storm, the blues and the reds, the unsure and the clear, this series embodies the unknown.The in-between before decision or fate arrives.Underpinned by strict geometry and almost painterly in texture, these soft minimalist compositions aim to push the boundaries of conventional photography.

A statement from The Artist

Reflective and consolatory, I urge the viewer to move in close and dissolve into the dark blues and the warm reds and determine your own feelings of place. I aim to conjure feelings reminiscent of long Australian afternoons, savouring the last light before the storms roll in and the uncomfortable feeling of uncertainty, foreboding.Spectate the awe of the changeable natural and remedy that unsteady feeling by discovering your own participation in a moment soon to be lost.Dark and melancholy, these skies remind me of the beauty in the diversity of our natural environment.

HALCYON​In Christopher's exhibition, Halcyon, he takes the empty landscape to new limits, pushing the boundaries of the idea of emptiness in both place as well as the photo medium. Pushing photography to its limits Christopher experiments between the border between nothingness and minute detail. At first encounter the soft Minimalist compositions appear to be boundless but on closer inspection these horizontal vistas are underpinned by a strict geometry. They fly in the face of the Australian obsession with figures in the landscape. Although there is nothing that could be identified as figurative, the images themselves pulsate with human presence. Empty of all things human yet their glowing, tingling surfaces are unified by the horizontal. These images also reflect Chris’s interest in the work of Mark Rothko and Nadav Kander and the music of Bon Iver. The culmination of four years work and research.

BLACK LINES 2017 ​​Photography and architecture are brought together in Black Eye Gallery’s exhibition, Black Lines 2017. The group exhibition features a selection of Australia’s architectural image makers. Moving beyond the highly polished images of commercial architectural photography, Black Lines 2017 surveys a wide selection of photographs of the built environment. The exhibition turns a critical eye on places and buildings often considered banal.The images takes the viewer on a journey in which the urban landscape becomes a geometric field of colour, lines and shapes to be played with, distorted, transformed, exaggerated or radically reduced using principles of design common to both the architect and photographer.